Google blocks ad for anti-Clinton book

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 11 June 2005 | Editors

[Robert Drobot]

Content 'unacceptable' despite search giant's 'Hate Bush' themes

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

A conservative book publisher says the search engine giant Google rejected his ad for a book critical of Bill and Hillary Clinton while continuing to accept anti-Bush themes.

Eric Jackson, CEO of World Ahead, said his ads for "Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine" were rejected, without futher explanation, due to "unacceptable content."

Jackson says Google's online ad guidelines make no mention of political content being disallowed.

He points out that while ads for the anti-Clinton book -- which featured images of the book's cover and pictures of the former first couple -- were deemed offensive, the company continues to run ads for overtly liberal advertisers with headlines such as "Hate Bush? So Do We," and "George W. Bush fart doll."

As WorldNetDaily reported, 98 percent of all political donations by Google employees went to support Democrats.

CEO Eric Schmidt gave the maximum legal limit of donations to Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry and to primary candidate Howard Dean.

Schmidt also contributed the maximum amount to Sen. Clinton, whose role in helping her husband intimidate his female accusers is addressed in the new book.

Last month, Google, valued recently at $80 billion, rejected an attempt by the conservative activist group RightMarch.com to run ads critical of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., while continuing to run attack ads against besieged House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.

Also, Google has agreed to allow the communist Chinese government to have the search engine block "objectionable" search terms such as "democracy." (My emphasis.)

The company came under fire for a recent editorial decision to rank news articles in search results by "quality," giving preferential placement to large and predominately liberal media outlets such as CNN and the BBC over conservative news sources, even if they are more recent or pertinent.

[Robert Drobot]

What used to be institutions of higher learning are now occupied by one of the greatest threats to the future of our Constitutional Republic.

I pray for the return of the House Un-American Activities Committee to expose these traitorous pencil-necks.

[ConsentofGoverned]

yep Dogpile is great and it's use should not add to google's eyeballs count..hate google and predict those who invest in google will loose big ..as it's stock value at over 80 bil right now is bubble numbers from the go go
internet days- suckers beware.

[Red Sea Swimmer]

I hope Google loses its market share then. Their share price is over-priced to the ballyhoo anyway. Now they want to start playing political games and they have entered the political arena, they must face the music.

If they can't stand the political heat they should get out of the political kitchen. They are big boys now. I'm sure they can handle themselves. If they can't I wont shed a tear over their fall.

[Red Sea Swimmer]

Excellent point.

They have a very bad case of "Selective Ethics".

[Red Sea Swimmer]

The perpetrator is given a voice, whilst the victim is silenced.

Quelle surprise !

The operators of Google can go to hell.

[HighWheeler]

Your's is the passive method.

[expat_panama]

I am now usung clusty. Google can kiss my big libertarian butt.

Thanks for the heads up on clusty.  I first heard about google on the freerepublic years ago, and now I'm hearing about clusty.  

Another good one IMHO is Answers.  They're one of Michael Medved's sponsers and it has quite a few nice 'bells 'n whistles'.

[Wilhelm Tell]

I assume the article means that the Chinese version of Google filters out any results for the word "democracy" that the Communists find objectionable. Maybe some Chinese-speaking Freepers can try it and report the results.

Here is the result of two Google searches I did using some of the most objectional names I could think of. These are quotes from the search engine -- I did not clik on the links! Yuck!

"NAMBLA's goal is to end the oppression of men and boys who have mutually consensual relationships. Our membership is open to everyone sympathetic to man/boy ..."

"The American Nazi Party - Includes downloadable handbills, articles of interest to white racialists and a life of George Lincoln Rockwell written by William Pierce."

I don't think a search engine should censor even the losers quoted above, but it is disturbing that so-called liberals are eager to help the Chinese Communists censor things.

[Wilhelm Tell]

"Here is the result of two Google searches I did using some of the most objectional "

Oops, I kant spel tu well.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Thanks for the recommendation. I checked out Clusty, and it seems well organized. Do you know who backs them, financially?

[freedom4me]

Last night I did a search on Dick Cheney, then clicked on the "images" key. You wouldn't believe all the trash they posted there--all kinds of Moveon.org-type posters. (One read: Is Cheney dead yet?) These hateful images were mixed in with pictures of the VP and his family. I was sickened, to say the least.

Do a similar search on George Bush and you'll see images that will make you want to vomit.

[BlackRain]

Here is link to some proof that Google is biased.

Is Google Adwords Biased Against Republicans?

http://www.hk94.com/weblog/?p=130

[ovrtaxt]

I do not. If we could find a good one backed by good people, I'd sure use them.

[syriacus]

I think I'll "shop" for a new search engine.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Yes, I know that Google is full of it. I've just been looking around for a different one to use. DH finally convinced me to use "Mozilla" for my browser, and I'm much happier with that, too.

Change is good! :)

[BibChr]

Free market principles favor Google, though. They're simply the best. Their map tool (maps.google.com) is the best; and as an IT support person, I've yet to find anything that rivals Google's Groups feature.

If I found a better, I'd switch.

Dan
)c8

[oldironsides]

This is ugly news for me as a Google stock holder. This news
will not sit well with investors. CNN knows exactly what happens when you try to slant or stop information. Fox News
came on the scene. Google had better watch the choices they make to cater to the left. It will backfire.

[Skooz]

bump

[Marauder]

OK, Clusty and Answers are two I will check out. I haven't used Google in quite some time, because of stuff like what I read here. I've preferred Alta Vista for a long time now.

Just a quick question for anyone that might know: I'm on sbcyahoo, and it won't let me enter a different startup page. If I put e.g., freerepublic for a "home" page, it works once, but the next time I open MSIE it again goes to sbcyahoo. Makes me wonder whether trying to use Mozilla will mess things up.